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Houses of the Week: Spain £1.57m

Golf and glitz

The saleability of this three-year-old plantation-style villa, 15 miles from glamorous Marbella, has increased since Santana, an 18-hole golf course, opened in the so-called Golf Valley nearby. The villa has four bedrooms and four bathrooms as well as a separate two-bedroom flat. The nearest airport is Malaga, 20 miles away, and flights from London take 2hr 20min

They say: A bit wasted on all those golfing men. This is a family house — all the bedrooms are doubles and there’s a swimming pool, garden and horse riding locally. The nearest beach is three-and-a-half miles away. It was rented out for £21,000 per month in high season even before the new course was built

We say: There’s no garage and the eight-mile drive from the motorway exit is along a very busy road. But the agents say that a planned motorway extension, expected to open